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Robert Heron, John C. Dvorak, Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Kenji Kato

TWiT 36 is on the air. Audio and video courtesy Pixel Corps and Golden Gate Studios.

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• Leo is reading Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity is Near and finds it fascinating
• Will nanotech turn the earth into gray goo?
• Alex says we vastly underestimate the human brain
• Machines are bad news for Golgafrinchams
• Dvorak reveals his "give me your new card trick"
• Robert is expecting thin flat 1920x1080p TVs at CES this year
• The key to quality is the chip - Robert likes HQV powered by Teranex
• Intel is dropping Intel Inside and replacing Pentium with Core
• Will Apple use Intel branding?
• Bill Gates used to own a big stake in AMD
• Silicon laser is going to give Intel a technology lead
• The White House and NSA web sites both violate federal guidelines and use tracking cookies
• Maybe they should switch to Mint?
• Symantec has a security flaw in 63 of their products
• Robert uses Spyware Blaster, but no anti-virus
• The Windows metafile flaw is very serious and exploits are everywhere
• Will Apple run Windows in OS X seamlessly?
• And will that discourage porting Windows software to OS X?
• Leo whines about Apple's Soundtrack Pro - it's not ready for primetime (although Alex used it to edit this week's edition)
• Leo prefers Adobe Audition
• Google's Zeitgeist is cracked
• But Dvorak loves Yelp
• Social Networking at MacWorld with Jambo.
• Seagate buys Maxtor
• 2005 is one second longer than 2006 - and Steve Martin says it's a left-wing conspiracy
• Cinema ticket sales slide again in 2005
• Dvorak recommends Sunday Morning Shootout on AMC
• Andy Serkis is King Kong
• HD-DVD will be at CES
• It was a big year for online retail
• Massachusetts CIO resigns
• Sony settles a rootkit class action lawsuit
• Coldplay's laughable CD insert
• Dvorak correctly predicted the Apple Intel switch in March
• If you're going to be in San Francisco on Tuesday, January 10, sign up for tickets to our live show at 6:30p at the Zeum, next door to MacWorld Expo.
• Next week, CES coverage!

Thanks to Golden Gate Studios for our new studio!